Indian Industry Plus A Pratisrutiplus Suppliment

The Union Budget 2026–27 has laid strong emphasis on the labour-intensive textile sector, recognising its critical role in employment generation, exports, rural livelihoods and sustainable manufacturing. A comprehensive and integrated policy framework has been announced to strengthen the entire textile value chain—from fibre to fashion, from village industries to global markets. Integrated Programme for the Textile Sector To enhance competitiveness, ...

The Chemicals and Petrochemicals sector continues to play a significant role in the industrial development of the Indian economy, with strong backward linkages to petroleum refining and natural gas processing and forward linkages with several downstream industries. As highlighted in the Economic Survey 2025–26, the sector contributed 8.1 per cent to the overall manufacturing sector’s Gross Value Added (GVA) in Financial Year 2024. The ...

The country has made significant improvements in increasing access to healthcare by providing better and more affordable facilities through public investment in health, including access to preventive and curative care, nutrition, and health insurance. Infant and maternal mortality rates have reduced, immunisation coverage has expanded, and access to primary healthcare services has improved. Initiatives like the National Health Mission, Ayushman ...

The global climate change agenda has reached an inflexion point, what was once framed as a straightforward moral and technological transition toward a net-zero future is today marked by complex trade-offs, capacity constraints and a widening gap between ambition and operational reality stated the Economic Survey 2025-26 tabled in Parliament today by Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt ...

In terms of international tourist arrivals, the latest data indicates a significant upward trend, as reflected in the table below:   International Tourist Arrivals in India Year ITA (in million) 2019 17.91 2020 6.33 2021 7 2022 14.33 2023 18.89 2024 (Provisional) 20.57 Source: Bureau of Immigration No specific study on the subject has been undertaken by the Ministry of ...

The Ministry of Tourism undertakes various promotional activities in important and potential tourist generating markets with the objective to promote tourism to the country, in association with the Indian Missions located in the respective countries, State Governments/ Union Territories Administrations and travel trade sector. These promotional activities undertaken during the last five years include participation in various international travel trade ...

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has operationalised a new web-based portal, PAIMANA (Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring & Analytics for Nation-building), for the mandated monitoring of Central Sector Infrastructure Projects worth ₹150 crore and above, replacing the erstwhile OCMS-2006 (Online Computerized Monitoring system). In line with the principle of “one data, one entry”, PAIMANA is integrated with DPIIT’s Integrated Project Monitoring Portal ...

India’s GDP growth for FY26 is estimated at 7.4 per cent driven by the double engine of consumption and investment. It reaffirms India’s status as the fastest-growing major economy for the fourth consecutive year. This was highlight of the Economic Survey 2025-26 tabled by the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament today. The Survey ...

The PFRDA has constituted a committee of Investment Experts for Strategic Asset Allocation and Risk Governance (SAARG) to review, recommend and modernize the investment framework under the NPS. SAARG has been tasked with undertaking a comprehensive review of the existing NPS investment guidelines benchmarking them with leading global pension systems and the evolving Indian investment ecosystem. The objective is to ...

As India’s economy grows and consumption diversifies, freight movement has increased sharply, straining roads, fuel use, and air quality. To address this, Indian Railways, through its visionary Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) initiative, has introduced the innovative Trucks-on-Trains (ToT) service. Conceived as part of Indian Railways’ long-term freight transformation strategy, the DFC network provides the backbone that enables new-generation multimodal logistics. ...